Riff Ninja Guitar Lessons

A Cool Blues Riff Using Doublestops

This a really easy, but really cool blues riff using doublestops. Like most blues guitar riffs it is based on the pentatonic minor scale, however, we are going to include a ‘passing note’ – a raised sixth – to give it an extra bit of flavor.

A doublestop is when two notes from the scale are played together, and was a very popular trick among early rock n’roll players such as Chuck Berry. This technique will also require bending the notes, which can be a bit of a challenge when holding down two strings.

Thanks for the free lesson, interesting on the bending down, I have some old school blues I been trying to learn with double stop bending and I have had big problems trying to bend the the strings up allthough they are on the high B and E strings, so not sure I could bend them down!